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Issue 104 Summer 2008
THE BOMB BLAST
David Pagel attempts to crack the feminist, violent and “slightly off-kilter” world of Kim Dingle and her paintings and installations.
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Sculptors Charles Ray and Paul Dickerson go beyond studio talk in a peripatetic stroll through museums, lunch at the Carlyle and a cab ride.
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Painters Chuck Close and Lisa Yuskavage take a psychological glimpse at white trash, individual struggle and artifice.
>>>Poets Jenifer Berman and Patricia Spears Jones talk about the various facets of Jones’s writing and her views on religion, race and privacy.
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Russell Banks reveals the dark side of the American spirit in his novel, Rule of the Bone, with Pinckney Benedict, winner of the John Steinbeck Award for Dogs of God.
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Independent filmmakers Alison Maclean (Crush) and Todd Haynes (Poison) talk about genre busting in Haynes’s feature film Safe, about a woman who turns to New Age cures for an environmental disease.
>>>Vernon Reid talks to the genre-defying trio Medeski, Martin & Wood about the choices they make in their music.
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English actors Helen Mirren and Peter Eyre compare notes on acting in New York and abroad as they tackle Broadway performances—Mirren in Turgenev’s A Day in the Country and Eyre in Hamlet.
>>>Coco Fusco looks into the theatrical value of Sacred Naked Nature Girls’ spontaneous, symbolic all nude show, and how it deals with issues of the body, gender and performance.
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